Linuxers August 2004

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netware and samba
by komal 23 Aug '04

23 Aug '04

How does Samba compare with NetWare in terms of efficiency in its file and print server? Komal

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HP PSC 1210 not detected on FC2
by Philip Tellis 23 Aug '04

23 Aug '04

I have a HP PSC 1210 printer. It used to work perfectly on Fedora Core 1 (kernel 2.4.x). I had to put the default printer and scanner drivers into the /etc/hotplug/blacklist file so that the hpoj driver could handle the same. After upgrading to FC2, the printer is no longer detected. The module names have changed to usblp and usbscanner I think, so I blacklisted those, but it makes no difference. printer doesn't get detected. Any ideas? Philip

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virus scanners for email gateways
by Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe 23 Aug '04

23 Aug '04

I know I can always google for virus scanners available for linux based email gateways, but what I want to know is people's experience with them. How easy / difficult is it to set them up for a large organisation? How effective are they? How frequently can you update them? Is there an auto-learning phase involved? What are the pro's and cons of such auto-learning scanners? Sameer. -- Research Scholar, KReSIT, IIT Bombay http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/~sameerds/

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Re: [Humor] SCOpe for a laugh
by Vickram Crishna 22 Aug '04

22 Aug '04

Actually Google is very high on humor, which shows to me that they are not just commercial cold-blooded types - you probably know that they have one of the world's highest concentration of PhDs in a commercial organisation. The simple web page, on which they often reflect global events through fun modifications of their logo (right now, every day is a new Olympic event) I think shows a good attitude. Can you imagine a Microsoft or Sun playing with the logo on their main site? There are many other examples of irony (even anti-Bush administration jokes, and anti-MS) they make through Easter eggs planted in the I'm Feeling Lucky option - but I don't think this is the forum for exchanging all of them. In fact, since these jokes are not taken down, it is clear the Google management tacitly approves, so they aren't really classic Easter eggs, though the jokes themselves are classic. Against this, I am afraid I find many commercial Linux distro companies totally short on humor of any kind. If anyone would care to correct me, most welcome. -- Vickram

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FC2 booting up w/ a readonly fs
by lists＠pavri.net 22 Aug '04

22 Aug '04

I have an IBM laptop. I have upgraded the hdd to a 20g from a 6g hdd. I have (had ?) FC2 on hda2 w/ home on hda6. hda5 is swap. I then loaded debian testing froma netisntall CD and then I loaded x-windows and some other software online. Partitioning of the disk was done previoulsy using tomsrtbt. Grub of FC2 is on hda2 and grub of debian os on hda3. hda2 is the active partition. After installing debian testing, I am unable to boot into FC2. I get the following errors and things come to a standstill. ---------------------------------------------- Updtaing /etc/fstab: Unable to open /etc/fstab for writing: Read only file system. touch: cannot touch '/var/lock/subsys/kudzu': Read only file system touch: cannot touch '/var/lock/subsys/iptables': Read only file system Starting system logger: ----------------------------------------------- the system just waits here and goes no further. regards, Sharukh. ps.: see my other mail for my debian woes :( pps.: I am using the web interface for this email so please excuse me if the lines don't wrap. ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [Humor] SCOpe for a laugh
by Vivek J.Patankar 22 Aug '04

22 Aug '04

On Sat Aug 21 22:43 , Rishi <rishigangoly(a)gmail.com> sent: >So this means google did something to make it happen? >Which means they can and are in control of what website should be >ranked first? Scary ;-) Ofcourse they did. it's obvious that the ppl who made it can manipulate it. >Is Google going to be another Microsoft that we all have begun to hate so much? I don't think so. Google uses open source software. Probably it's just their way of expressing what they feel about the entire SCO issue. >Points to ponder huh! ---- Introducing Spymac MailPro: http://www.spymac.com/mailpro/

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [Humor] SCOpe for a laugh
by Vinayak Hegde 22 Aug '04

22 Aug '04

On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 23:32:28 +0530, Vickram Crishna <vvcrishna(a)radiophony.com> wrote: > Apologies if you've seen this one before, but... > > bring up Google's search page, type 'bastards' and click on I'm > Feeling Lucky... Hi, SCO has snatched the crown from Microsoft as open source evangelist's punching bag. It was hilarious to know that conspiracy theorists on this list were spinning stories about google manipulating the results. As any technology google's page ranking mechanism has it's flaws. When many people link to a webpage like this <a href=www.sco.com> bastards </a> the rank for sco.com for the keywords bastards goes up. This is known as a "google bomb" This will happen when many bloggers do this kinds of links. Just goes to show the "power of blogging". more info here (thanks google :D) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bomb http://www.microcontentnews.com/articles/googlebombs.htm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1868395.stm --> Vinayak Hegde

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hdc error
by crisppy f 22 Aug '04

22 Aug '04

hi all these days there is one error in my system which keep on scrolling whenever i try to install any new rpm. error is something related to hdc on which my linux is installed. ########### hdc error {uncorrectable error} LBA 242674 error dma_intr device error etc........... ######### even when i am trying to check rpm database using db_verify command its again giving errors that database error. now i don know its something wrong with disk or rpm database. can any of you please help me in recovering from this . thanku all, linux bee in my next mail i'll send you the exact error Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline.

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Fedora Core2 cd's dont work.
by advait raut 22 Aug '04

22 Aug '04

hi I tried to install FC2 provided in today's meet. but its second CD doesn't work. it keep on asking to insert 2nd cd though it is all ready inserted. does u guys find same problem wile installing FC2 . provided in today's meet. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [Humor] SCOpe for a laugh
by scrapo＠saswatabanerjee.com 22 Aug '04

22 Aug '04

Rishi <rishigangoly(a)gmail.com> wrote: __________ >> bring up Google's search page, type 'bastards' and click on I'm >> Feeling Lucky... > > >:-) > >So this means google did something to make it happen? >Which means they can and are in control of what website should be >ranked first? Scary ;-) >Is Google going to be another Microsoft that we all have begun to hate so much? It may not have any thing to do with google making a change. Google uses some type of ranking based on number of times a word comes in a linked page (never bothered with details). This has been used in the past, most famous being linking evil or something to microsoft website. Google removed it when it became popular and comon knowledge. There are lots of documents on how to take a google ranking up. This one is done by community effort. If many different websites same the same thing, ranking goes up. Regards saswata > >Points to ponder huh! > >Regards > >Rishi > >-- >http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

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